Saturday i was second hand shopping again, ain't it crazy? But sometimes you get so happy of the bargains. A good friend was selling old clothes and of her I bought this lovely 40-50's dress. Isnt it so so wonderful, as Cinderella would have said? I hardly looked at the size, only the fabric was enough to buy it. But the best of it, I can wear it, it does fit!!!. Who will be the prettiest on the summerparty ?? *lol*

I also bought this pale pink blouse bought at Mallorca in the 50's, its hand embroidery. Such quality you almost can't buy today.

Baby pink nylon stockings and two gloves that match.

Im so tired now. Ive been baking for a shop tonight + doing some vintage scrapbooking. I will show another day. Godnight my dear friends!!

Sometimes I make the bargains at the fleamarket but this time I made it in my own barn, again. Husbands domains is so untidy. I tried to go in there to look for screws but I have to move a mountain to even get in there. And don't think that he put the screws in ONE place. But digging around I'm finding these nice cans, all too pretty to store rusty spikes in it, aren't they?

Can you see them in christmas time with mini amaryllis in the red and white tazettas in the blue, with green moss around?

A few days ago I suddenly had some spare time ( I was home ill). So I catched the day to make some soap. I've scented it with ylang ylang and lavender oil. I think it might have been more calm to stay at work. Now the soap is cutted in pieces to dry in the kitchen and it smell so nice.

~Horrible weather. This morning i woke up of the light in the bedroom, not coming from the sun but 2 inches of snow. Tuli took out the pulka and said that " Santa will soon arrive".

My lilys are freezing!

So yesterday when it began to snow we went to a fleamarket for shopping our sorrows away. Nice prices but when the kids comes with you the money flies away (on an extra bike etc.). But a was able to save some for myself. This nice tin jar. I will hide our remote controls in this one. To old school pictures "root" and "stem". I just wanted one but as they were cheap I bought both. This zest iron I bought last week. I will use it as a tea-candle holder.

Now the snow has melted and when I went out to the cellar i heard this years first cuckoo.

I'm right in time. Read the newspaper today that food is getting more expensive. Lucky me I have the garden stuffed with food right now. The most luxurious of it all, the aspargus, I picked for the first time this weekend. In the owen with garlic oil and parmesana cheese it was so nice.

Today I picked the weed, nettles, the garden is full of it but I don't complain. Sunday I made some pie of it with sundried tomatoes, and for dinner this day I served soup. Tuli the familys vegetarian was so amused. Talking of that, he asked his father if it is summer now, when he said yes, Tuli jumped up and down and yelled "yeah, then I can go to the garden and eat". That day my spring onions were eaten fresh from the soil.

Last picture is something nice for fish, but you have to pic it before the flowers comes. Shop the leaves down in a home made hollandaise sauce and serve it with salmon. It is acidous leaves. Now down for some more planting.

Right now I'm working with the our sportsassosciation or the garden. The garden work is just tidying and sawing the seed so I don´t have anything nice of that to show. Thats why I show you theese pics. Pictures I've taken JUST IN CASE. God I'm boring!

A lamp, so wh.., in a unhip colour. But it is pure art deco. My grandfather had it in his bedroom. I'm thinking of setting the interior style after this lamp in this particular room (not renovated). Well the lamp is one of my absolute favourites. And at last a picture. This was a real bargain at a antique book store. 5€ only. I can absolutely recommend you to dig in those kind of stores. You will find so much fun.

It took about two months, then the livingroom table is finished. First a layer of terpentine+oil mixture, then putty, grinding, putty, grinding, a layer of linumoilcolour, putty and grinding and then more paintin. After several layers of slow drying oilcolour the table was new. I finished with a layer of protecting antique wax. I'm praising the slow motion. The laquering was brittle and we had a fire on it for 10 years ago (took long time to get to painting). But now it's done.

At last after 15 years. My hanging cactus is flowering. This is how to: Put it on the attic in a dark corner and forget it (water once or twice) over the winter, then a topping with new soul, and water with nourishment, then voila. this is how the flower looks.